Hollywood Drawing

Time is slowly advancing unknowingly. While cooperating with various plans of the public relations team, Wayne will appear in public from time to time, or in the media owned by Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox, constantly building up his reputation. Feeling, while paying close attention to the post-production work of "The Dark Knight".

"That's it for now, Julia. You know what I think. Don't cause any problems with the secondary editing."

In the filming room of Warner Studio, Gilmour forcefully opened the curtains. Wayne rubbed his sore eyes while exchanging opinions with editor Julia in a low voice. "The trailer prepared for the Super Bowl still reflects the spatial layout of a dark opera, with more big scenes cut in. We need these to attract the audience."

Julia, the black editor, nodded and said, "No problem, leave it to me."

She has been constantly observing the filming process since the first day the crew started filming. Every night, she would communicate with Wayne in the hotel's temporary film room about the intentions of the day's filming, the editing effects she wanted to leave, and The various reserved editing points can be said to have laid an extremely solid foundation for the current work.

Simply in terms of understanding the director's intentions, Julia is definitely the first in the entire crew, knowing far more than Gilmore and others who are responsible for specific matters. This also made the first rough cut of the film go smoothly. The slide was completed in a short time.

What they just saw was just a rough cut version of "The Dark Knight". It lasted for several hours and lacked some scenes with special effects. It was not aesthetically pleasing at all. Most importantly, it lacked the necessary elements in the film. The indispensable various soundtracks made it very boring for many people to watch.

"Hey, Wayne."

It wasn't until their exchange came to an end that Charles Rowan said, "John Williams' team has already preliminary completed the film score. He hopes to make an appointment with you to chat."

"After the Super Bowl." A hand gently scratched the stubble on his chin. Wayne tilted his head and considered for a few seconds. After secretly calculating his work schedule during this period, he gave a solution. accurate time. "After the Super Bowl, I will have a lot less work here. Make an appointment with him for me, and then tell Nina that my schedule during this period is very intensive, and she will arrange everything."

After saying that, he stood up, opened his hands and stretched hard, and once again used his eyes to indicate to several people whether there were any problems or tasks that needed to be decided by himself.

After several people said it was okay, he didn't hold back at all. He opened the door and walked directly outside the studio with Nina.

"Do you have any other plans today?"

Sitting on the tram and looking at the increasingly empty studios, it was a general trend for Hollywood crews to move out. There were very few big-production crews willing to rent Warner Studios as the main filming location. Wayne raised his wrist to look at it. He glanced at the time, rubbed his forehead and asked.

"Real jobs are gone."

Pushing up her glasses, Nina didn't care about the moving tram at all. She flipped through her work record book and took a look at it before saying: "Just when you were watching the rough cut sample, Angelina Jolie called three times and asked if you had any Time to have dinner together..."

While they were talking, the tram arrived at the entrance of the studio. The assistant lady shut her mouth. Under the leadership of Sergey, the two of them walked towards their car, ignoring the shouts and flashes of several paparazzi and reporters.

"Ignore her, I don't have time to play games with her now."

After the Rolls-Royce Phantom started smoothly, Wayne frowned and had no intention of hunting for beauty at all. "Any more?"

"Uh-huh." Nina shrugged and continued: "And Ms. Bella Grant, she sent a text message and asked when you would be free. She wanted to do an "exclusive interview" with you, but I have already declined for you. , including an invitation from Angelina Jolie.”

This is probably the part where those women are most gnashing their teeth and feeling helpless towards Nina. As we all know, Wayne never carries a mobile phone with him. If you want to contact him, you can only contact him through the assistant lady first, and then It was only possible to get through to him.

However, usually Wayne would not answer some personal calls that had nothing to do with work. He would usually wait until the work was over, listen to the assistant lady's report, and then selectively return the calls one by one.

Seeing that Wayne had begun to close his eyes and leaned on the back seat to relax, Nina curled her lips and continued to report. "Over in Australia, Ector called."

After hearing the news about "The Matrix", Wayne raised his hand and waved, indicating for her to continue.

"The filming progress is normal. Ector has nothing to say in this regard. Although the crew has some minor troubles, it has not affected the filming work. The main thing is..."

Nina paused for a moment and saw her boss opening his eyes curiously. Then she spread her hands and joked in a weird voice: "Charlize Theron has a tendency to act like a big star and has been late many times. , due to your face and the good shooting progress, Zach didn’t say much, and what’s more!”

Wayne shook his head speechlessly, not bothering to think about these farces. Acting like a celebrity happens to almost every famous actress, and it is even more common among female stars who have just become famous, because this seems to have become a common way for female stars to express their status within the crew. "what else."

"Charlize Theron has deliberately made trouble for Monica Bellucci several times." Nina grinned and observed the man's face and continued: "But compared to the young and energetic South African girl, the Italian The girl is much more mature, and according to Ector, several troubles were dealt with by Monica Bellucci showing weakness."

"Tonight." That's bullshit, Wayne cursed secretly in his mind. He was really too lazy to pay attention to these nonsense, but think about it, if he didn't pay attention, he might cause trouble that would affect the crew's work in the future. . "Calculate the time it takes to finish work in Australia. Call Sally and tell her that it was me. If she doesn't want to film well, then don't film it at all!" Here, Wayne is busy with various award public relations matters. While focusing on the post-production work of "The Dark Knight", I also have to deal with some private investments. However, this period of time has been very fruitful for "The Departed", and the first one to gain it was the "Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Picture".

This was like the beginning of a charge. Since then, it has won the "North American National Board of Review Award for Best Film of the Year" in competition with films such as "Fargo", "Sex Book Tycoon" and "The English Patient". , "North American Film Institute Award for Best Film of the Year", "North American National Society of Film Critics Awards for Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, etc."

Although there have always been some discordant voices in the awards of the Film Critics Association, it has not actually affected the performance of "The Departed" at all. As time gradually approaches the end of January, "The Departed" has already received strong publicity channels Under the offensive of He Jinyuan, he won more than 80 awards of various sizes.

Obviously, 99% of these are not worthy of Wayne's personal appearance to accept the award, but to a certain extent, it has become an important data basis for another round of soft article promotion by Warner Brothers. The purpose of these all-pervasive publicity is to deepen the impression of the film on those academy judges who have never watched a movie. At least when they vote with their feet, they will choose a familiar title, right?

On January 26, in the living room of a luxurious villa in the suburbs of Chicago, Roger Ebert was sitting on the sofa, his small eyes wearing round glasses, staring at the TV screen unblinkingly, as if there was something on it As if what he expected would appear immediately, his expression was extremely serious.

"Roger, there's no need for us to watch those damn things." The agent looked at his client worriedly. Although the client had become thinner due to being diagnosed with cancer, he didn't give people the feeling of sympathy, but because of his thinness. His face made those two buck teeth look even more gloomy and terrifying. "The doctor said you can't be stimulated..."

"Don't worry, I'm in a very good state of mind now, and I won't be irritated by a trailer of a few dozen seconds." Roger Ebert smiled, but his expression turned quite ugly again. "That idiot Harvey Weinstein! I shouldn't have believed him in the first place, otherwise, this trailer would probably not have appeared on the Super Bowl."

No one expected that the thing he bought for millions of dollars would end up with such a result. Instead, it would achieve the promotion and marketing of Warner Bros. What made him even more unexpected was that even with his many years of movie-watching experience, We have already guessed DC's subsequent plan. Not only did it not cause any splash among the public and media, even Warner Brothers showed disdain.

Roger Ebert had a detailed conversation with the screenwriting team leader on the phone and was sure that Warner Bros.’s next DC comic book adaptation movie must be "Cyborg". He even did not hesitate to study the settings of the DC comics. I feel more and more that Cyborg is the most suitable lubricant to connect Batman and other heroes at this stage.

"I heard." The agent glanced at his client's face, hesitating whether to tell the news he got, but finally said in the face of the other party's gradually cold eyes: "I heard that Harvey Wayne Stan has also been having a hard time during this time. The crew of "Good Will Hunting" invested and filmed by Miramax began to be troubled by various private non-profit organizations. This is the third time that the filming has been suspended to accept investigation.

For the two films it invested in, "Scream 2" and "Wings of Death," other investors announced their withdrawal of investment after the filming of the films had begun. A third-party guarantee company is ready to take over these two crews. Miramax has been frantically soliciting investment in the industry these days, hoping to save these two films that Harvey Weinstein is optimistic about, but various film investment companies in the industry It’s as if there is a tacit understanding among institutions that no one is willing to invest even a penny! besides......"

Suddenly feeling a chill on his back, Roger Ebert subconsciously asked: "What else?"

"The original author of "Police Empire" invested and filmed by Miramax suddenly took the crew to court, believing that there was commercial fraud in the copyright contract signed with the crew! Even the small-cost film "The Mutant" with a million-dollar investment DNA" and "Crazy About You", one had a fire on the set, burning more than half of the film and some equipment that had been shot, and the other had a large number of stuntmen injured, and the fat man was going crazy!"

"Damn Warner Brothers..." Roger Ebert muttered, and the TV suddenly went dark. It turned out that the first half of the game between the Green Bay Packers and the New England Patriots had ended, and there was The first advertising blockbuster at the Super Bowl halftime ad show was not the Dior and Coca-Cola that appear every year, but the most anticipated DC masterpiece "The Dark Knight" in 1997.